The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, which is one of the states of Germany, is governed by the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. The Senate is chaired by the president of the Senate, who is the head of government of the city-state. The president of the Senate and another member of the senate both hold the title mayor (Bürgermeister).The Senate of the state of Bremen is elected by the Parliament of Bremen (Bürgerschaft), the legislature elected by citizens in the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven. However, Bremerhaven also has a separate municipal assembly and a separate administration headed by a distinct mayor.
List Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (1945–present) President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen Political party:
PortraitName(Born–Died)Term of officePolitical partySenateTook officeLeft officeDays 1Wilhelm Kaisen(1887–1979)31 July 194520 July 1965SPDIIIIIIIVVVIVII 2Willy Dehnkamp(1903–1985)20 July 196528 November 1967SPDI 3Hans Koschnick(1929–2016)28 November 196718 September 1985SPDIIIIIIVIV 4Klaus Wedemeier(born 1944)18 September 19854 July 1995SPDIIIIII 5Henning Scherf(born 1938)4 July 19958 November 2005resignedSPDIIIIII 6Jens Böhrnsen(born 1949)8 November 200517 July 2015SPDIIIIII 7Carsten Sieling(born 1959)17 July 201515 August 2019SPDI 8Andreas Bovenschulte(born 1965)15 August 2019IncumbentSPDIII
Mayor, deputy of the president of the Senate Name(Born–Died) Took office Left officeParty Theodor Spitta(1873–1969) 6 June 1945 28 December 1955 Free Democratic Party Jules Eberhard Noltenius(1908–1976) 28 December 1955 21 December 1959 Christian Democratic Union Adolf Ehlers(1898–1978) 21 December 1959 26 November 1963 Social Democratic Party Willy Dehnkamp(1903–1985) 26 November 1963 19 July 1965 Social Democratic Party Hans Koschnick(1929–2016) 19 July 1965 22 November 1967 Social Democratic Party Annemarie Mevissen(1914–2006) 22 November 1967 3 November 1975 Social Democratic Party Walter Franke(1926–2015) 3 November 1975 7 November 1979 Social Democratic Party Moritz Thape(1920–2019) 7 November 1979 17 September 1985 Social Democratic Party Henning Scherf(born 1938) 17 September 1985 11 December 1991 Social Democratic Party Claus Jäger(born 1943) 11 December 1991 2 November 1993 Free Democratic Party Ralf Fücks(born 1951) 2 November 1993 23 February 1995 Alliance 90/The Greens Ulrich Nölle(born 1940) 4 July 1995 16 September 1997 Christian Democratic Union Hartmut Perschau(1942–2022) 16 September 1997 13 July 2004 Christian Democratic Union Peter Gloystein(born 1945) 8 September 2004 12 May 2005 Christian Democratic Union Thomas Röwekamp(born 1966) 25 May 2005 29 June 2007 Christian Democratic Union Karoline Linnert(born 1958) 29 June 2007 15 August 2019 Alliance 90/The Greens Maike Schaefer(born 1971) 15 August 2019 5 July 2023 Alliance 90/The Greens Björn Fecker(born 1977) 5 July 2023 Incumbent Alliance 90/The Greens
See also Timeline of Bremen
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